923 results returned
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Title: York Town, and Gloucester Point : as besieged by the Allied Army
Contributors:- Image data
- 1788
Summary: Relief shown by hachures. In upper margin: Plate IX; engraved for Dr. Gordon's History of the American War.; to face page 196, vol. iv. Oriented with north to upper left. Includes index to troop positions, firing lines, fortifications, and ship positions.
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Title: North America, agreeable to the most approved maps and charts
Contributors:- Image data
- 1782
Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: London. "Engraved for Millar's New complete & universal system of geography."
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Title: Various plans and draughts of cities, towns, harbours &c.
Contributors:- Image data
- 1778
Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by form lines. "Engraved for Moore's New and complete collection of voyages and travels." From John Hamilton Moore's New and complete collection of voyages and travels. 1778. Vol. 2, facing p. 852. Described in Faupel's Americana 89, no. 195.
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Title: Asia : agreeable to the most approved maps and charts
Contributors:- Image data
- 1778
Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridians: London and Ferro. "Engraved for Moore's New and complete collection of voyages and travels." Decorative title cartouche includes man on a camel. Historic Maps copy imperfect: margins trimmed, with some loss of text.
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Title: Boston, Massachusetts and vicinity, showing Revolutionary War fortification sites, 1788 (Raster Image)
Contributors:- Raster data
- 2006
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
- Conder, Thomas, 1746 or 7-1831.
- Gordon, William, 1728-1807.
Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Boston with its environs, [by] T. Conder, sculpt. The map was originally published in: William Gordon's The history of the rise, progress, and establishment, of the independence of the United States of America, 1788. Scale [ca. 1:53,360]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows Revolutionary War features such as positions of troops, redoubts, batteries, and forts, etc. It also shows features such as roads, drainage, selected public buildings and residences, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.
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Title: Maine, 1793 (Raster Image)
Contributors:- Raster data
- 2007
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
- Carleton, Osgood, 1742-1816.
- Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.
- Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831.
- Andrews, Ebenezer Turrell, 1766-1851.
Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled:The district of Main : from the latest surveys, by Osgood Carleton. It was published in 1793 by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, in Jedidiah Morse's The American universal geography. Vol. 1 (1793). p. 345. Scale [ca. 1:2,800,000]. Covers Maine and portions of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, the provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, Canada. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to Universal Transverse Mercator projection (UTM Zone 19N, meters, NAD 83). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as cities and towns, drainage, county, state, and national boundaries and more. Relief is shown pictorially. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of New England from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.
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Title: North America, agreeable to the most approved maps and charts
Contributors:- Not specified
- 1760
Summary: Scale not given
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Title: Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775, Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts, (Raster Image)
Contributors:- Raster data
- 2006
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
- Page, Thomas Hyde, Sir, 1746-1821.
- Stedman, C. (Charles), 1753-1812.
- Montresor, John, 1736-1799.
Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A plan of the action at Bunkers Hill on the 17th of June 1775 between His Majesty's troops, under the command of Major General Howe, and the American forces. The version of the map imaged here is a 1793 facsimile of the 1775 original manuscript map by Lieut. Thomas Hyde Page, of the Engineers, who acted as aide de camp to General Howe in that action ; ground plan is from an actual survey of Captn. Montresor. The facsimile was produced for Charles Stedman's The history of the origin, progress, and termination of the American war, 1794. Scale [ca. 1:4,800]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows troop disposition, lines of fire, and military fortifications (redoubts, entrenchments, etc.). It also shows features such as roads, buildings, drainage, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. It includes 'References to the plans' and note. The source paper map was produced with an overlay map showing earlier stages of troop disposition; the image here is shown without the overlay. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.
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Title: Carte de la Haute Egypte : sur la quelle sont tracées les marches des troupes commandées par Desaix pendant l'expédition de Bonaparte en Afrique ...
Contributors:- Image data
- 1829
Summary: Relief shown by hachures. "La ligne ponctuée est aussi celle du voyate du Cr. Denon dans cette partie de l'Egypte et les numeros qui y sont joint servent de renvoi aux planches du même voyage, ou l'on trouve les vues des lieux qu'ils indiquent." Probably issued in: Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte ... / par Vivant Denon. Paris : H. Gaugain, 1829. Historic Maps copy has ms. annotations.
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Title: Carte de l'Egypte inferieure
Contributors:- Image data
- 1829
Summary: Relief shown by hachures. "Les principaux points de cette carte, savoir, Le Kaire, Alexandrie, Damiette, Rosette, Saléhieh, Belbeis, l'Isle de Tanis, la bouche de Dibé et celle d'Oummfaredge, sont placés d'après les observations astronomiques faites par le citoyen Nouet." Probably issued in: Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte ... / par Vivant Denon. Paris : H. Gaugain, 1829. At top right: Pl. 7. Historic Maps copy has ms. annotations.
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Title: Terra filiorum Israelis, antequam in duo regna dispertita fuit : cum terra Philistæorum, parte Phœnices, &c.
Contributors:- Image data
- 1812
Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Title at top of map: Geographiæ antiquæ tab. XXII. Ancillary map: Judaea et regiones finitimæ circiter initium Ærae Christianæ.
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Title: Germania Magna : quæ nunquam Romanis paruit
Contributors:- Image data
- 1806
Summary: At top of map: Geographiæ antiquæ tab. XXI. Map of Greater Germany east of the Rhine during the time of the Roman Empire, showing locations of tribes. Relief shown by hachures. Inset: Gentes Rheno et Albi vicinæ, exeunte seculo quinto æræ Christianæ. From: Atlas of ancient geography. Philadelphia, 1806.
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Title: Asia Peninsularis cum insulis adjacentibus : præcipue ad mentem Strabonis, adjectis viis militaribus quantum indagari possunt
Contributors:- Image data
- 1806
Summary: At top of map: Geographiæ antiquæ tab. VII. Relief shown by hachures. From: Atlas of ancient geography. Philadelphia, 1806.
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Title: Imperium Car. Magn. ad finem sæc. post Christ. VIIIm
Contributors:- Image data
- 1806
Summary: At top of map: Ancient geography. Plate 1. Relief shown by hachures. From: Atlas of ancient geography. Philadelphia, 1806.
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Title: Hellas sive Græcia propria, Thesalia et Epirus : antequem Romanæ ditionis fuerunt
Contributors:- Image data
- 1806
Summary: At top of map: Geographiæ antiquæ tab. V. Relief shown by hachures. Inset map of Chaonia. From: Atlas of ancient geography. Philadelphia, 1806.
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Title: Italia in regiones undecim ab Augusto descripta, cum insulis Corsica et Sardinia
Contributors:- Image data
- 1806
Summary: At top of map: Geographiæ antiquæ tab. XVI. Relief shown by hachures. From: Atlas of ancient geography. Philadelphia, 1806.
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Title: Hispania Romana cum viis militaribus
Contributors:- Image data
- 1806
Summary: At top of map: Geographiæ antiquæ tab. XVIII. Relief shown by hachures. From: Atlas of ancient geography. Philadelphia, 1806. Historic Maps copy 1 on heavy paper.
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Title: Libyæ, vel Africæ, ora borealis
Contributors:- Image data
- 1806
Summary: At top of map: Geographiæ antiquæ tab. IX. Relief shown by hachures.
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Title: Ægyptus, provincia romana imperialis
Contributors:- Image data
- 1806
Summary: At top of map: Geographiæ antiquæ tab. VIII. Relief shown by hachures. Inset: Ægypti pars meridionalis. From: Atlas of ancient geography. Philadelphia, 1806.
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Title: Peloponnesus, (quæ antea Apia, Pelasgia, et Argos), antequem Romanæ ditionis fuit : cum insulis adjacentibus
Contributors:- Image data
- 1806
Summary: At top of map: Geographiæ antiquæ tab. IV. Relief shown by hachures. Inset: Creta (scale [ca. 1:19,000,000]). From: Atlas of ancient geography. Philadelphia, 1806. Probably engraved by Benjamin Tanner.